Democracy’s Discontent: America in Search of a Public PhilosophyThe defect, Sandel maintains, lies in the impoverished vision of citizenship and community shared by Democrats and Republicans alike. American politics has lost its civic voice, leaving both liberals and conservatives unable to inspire the sense of community and civic engagement that self-government requires. |
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... role of constitutional rights in the first century of the republic suggests that Americans have not always ... roles of the state and federal governments . " Why did the Constitution include no bill of rights ? " the Anti - Federalists ...
... role in protecting individual liberties against federal infringement . Liberty in the early republic had less to do with individual guarantees against government action than with the dispersion of power among branches and levels of ...
... role of the judge , they also contain a larger claim about the nature of the Constitution . Implicit in his dissents is not only an argument for judicial deference to majorities but also a certain reading of the Constitution , a reading ...
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Contents
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Religious Liberty and Freedom of Speech | 55 |
Privacy Rights and Family Law | 91 |
Economics and Virtue in the Early Republic | 123 |
Free Labor versus Wage Labor | 168 |
Community SelfGovernment and Progressive Reform | 201 |
Liberalism and the Keynesian Revolution | 250 |
The Triumph and Travail of the Procedural Republic | 274 |
Other editions - View all
Democracy’s Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy Michael J. Sandel Limited preview - 1998 |
Liberalism and Its Critics: America in Search of a Public Philosophy Michael J. Sandel No preview available - 1998 |
Democracy's Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy Michael J. Sandel No preview available - 1996 |